When a goalkeeper from the likes of Jorge D'Alessandro played over 200 games as a starter in the first division, many goalkeepers who are in the background, waiting for that opportunity awaited in the form of game Cup or any instant, to make their part in the history of a club like ours ...
That's exactly what happened to one of the goalkeepers who waited patiently for those years, the power to be important at first " despite "Jorge D'Alessandro.
Antonio was the second goalkeeper of the UDSalamanca between 76 and 82, and jumped to the front line after the injury of Don Jorge at San Mames in 78, initial doubts about the ability of the youth squad to overcome this important challenge (Pereira signing included) were overcome by the successful interventions of Salamanca in the 16 games he played as a starter in that 77-78 in which, at times, flirt with UEFA.
Antonio debut at home to Sevilla in week 16 of that season, with live cameras TVE.
The memory of Jorge injured and encouragement to young Antonio, stressed from the stands at the end of that game 1-1.
Sometimes in life, as in football, a quirk of fate, and takes concrete shape, and that was with the Union and Antonio said fifteen days after his debut match at first ...
The eternal deputy donned gloves and jumped another ten, grass Chamartin the January 22, 1978 and stopped all despairing of 80,000 that filled the stands and found white tips to the defense and the immeasurable National Front which starred Antonio the next day.
Jensen, Pirri, Guerini, Santillana, Juanito Roberto Martinez and even as a penalty, saw Antonio green gloves and again rejected the firing of spikes Real Madrid ... to end up deciding a 0-0 final, which was the second and last time I scored in the coliseum white ... so, finally, after all, go down in history, Antonio, unionism.
Antonio is released to his right to address in two shooting Juanito from the penalty spot, which included paradinha was unable to beat the goalkeeper from Salamanca that afternoon I stopped everything.
club's history draws on first, second and third blades, many of them filled little notes in the records from his modesty ... and sometimes, when the focus of ownership lights are also , met, shine and allow many years later his memory still endures ...
And so, giving him the renown that focuses not always followed, but history of our UDS; value now, remembering, thirty and three years After those times, the words my father uttered every time we passed in front of the shoe that Don Antonio is on Avenida de Portugal:
"Look son, this man, we did score in the Bernabéu ... "
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